In 1880, the French government awarded Bell the Volta Prize of 50, 000 francs ( approximately US $ 10, 000 at that time, about $ in current dollars ) for the invention of the telephone, which he used to found the Volta Laboratory, along with Sumner Tainter and Bell's cousin Chichester Bell.

This occurred in 1880, when Lee Richmond and John Montgomery Ward pitched perfect games within five days of each other, although under somewhat different rules: the front edge of the pitcher's box was only from home base ( the modern release point is about farther away ); walks required eight balls ; and pitchers were obliged to throw side-armed.

Spanish emerald and gold pendant at Victoria and Albert MuseumEnamelled gold, amethyst and pearl pendant, about 1880, Pasquale Novissimo ( 1844 – 1914 ), V & A Museum number M. 36-1928

Founded in 1848, in Northwood, Logan County, Ohio, the college moved to its present location in 1880, where it continues to educate a student body of about 1400 traditional undergraduates in over 30 majors, as well as graduate students in a handful of master's programs.

In 1880, his father built him a theatre in Richburg, New York, and Baum set about writing plays and gathering a company to act in them.

Over a period of about 30 years, from 1880 to 1910, the nail-making process was almost completely automated.

The craze ended by July 1880 and Sam Loyd's first article about the puzzle was not published until sixteen years later, January 1896.

However, like beacons, smoke and reflected light signals they were highly dependent on good weather and daylight to work ( practical electrical lighting was not available until about 1880 ).

Until about 1880, the paradigm for AC power transmission from a high voltage supply to a low voltage load was a series circuit.

Emile Zola likewise wrote a novel, Nana ( 1880 ), about a courtesan in nineteenth-century France.

In 1880, for example, the white illiteracy rate was about 25 % in Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, South Carolina, and Georgia ; and as high as 33 % in North Carolina.

Venn diagrams were introduced in 1880 by John Venn ( 1834 – 1923 ) in a paper entitled " On the Diagrammatic and Mechanical Representation of Propositions and Reasonings " in the " Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science ", about the different ways to represent propositions by diagrams.

Beginning about 1880, Roman Catholic missionaries arrived in the Great Lakes region.

GDP per capita rose from 35 % of the United States average in 1880 to about 80 % in 1905, similar to that of France, Germany and Canada.

Antonio Pini-Corsi was the standout Italian buffo baritone in the period between about 1880 and World War I, reveling in comic opera roles by Rossini, Donizetti and Paer, among others.

The dates of this constitution's operation are unknown: the League was formed in approximately 1000 – 1450, but the constitution was oral until written in about 1880.

Finney County began about 1880 as Buffalo County and Sequoyah County, named after Sequoyah, the Cherokee Indian responsible for the development of the Cherokee alphabet.

The cathedral school which existed from the time of the Elizabethan Bishop Blethyn until about 1700 was re-established by Dean Vaughan in 1880.

Between 1880 and 1885 the courts were clogged with a large number of cases, many of them about land claims and properties.

Relations between settlers and indigenous peoples in the Verde Valley were essentially peaceful from that point on and with the rapid increase in settlers along Oak Creek, although there were " Indian scares " into the 1880s mostly in connection with conflicts elsewhere: In the words of settler W. A. Jordan, in about 1880 " The settlers were in no danger from this band of hunters he had just met between Clarkdale and Cornville, but they were so wrought up over the stories of massacres and murders that the Indians themselves were in the greatest danger.

Both Mr. Cone and Mr. Houghton sold their interests in the ranch to James Page in about 1880.

The Jenny Lind mine produced about $ 2, 500 of gold a day for a while, up to a total output over $ 1 million by 1880.

The Arcade Meadow of Oak Trees was used as a staging area to load by rail transport all horses out to Kentucky, and beyond, from about 1880 to 1905.

By 1880, the area, around what would become Belleview, had a population of about 350 people.

Excavations made in 1879 and 1880 led to the discovery of the remains of this station, arranged round three sides of a courtyard some 100 ft. square, including traces of baths and other buildings, and a massive embanking wall above them, some 150 ft. in length, to protect them from landslips, while a discharge certificate ( tabula honestae missionis ) of sailors who had served in the Ravenna's fleet was found in some ruins here or hereabouts.

In contrast to 1868 and 1880 when the Liberal campaign lasted several months, only three weeks separated the news of the dissolution and the election.

Lord Acton wrote in 1880 that he considered Gladstone as one " of the three greatest Liberals " ( along with Edmund Burke and Lord Macaulay ).

From 1717 until 1880, three successive Islamic dynasties — the Nasiri, Afshar and Najafi — all related by bloodlines, ruled Bengal:

Its London debut was on 3 April 1880, at the Opera Comique, where it ran for a very successful 363 performances, having already been playing successfully for over three months in New York.

The couple had three children: Marie ( b. 1877 ), Dagny ( b. 1880 ) and Herman ( b. 1884 ).

Ashley Valley was not part of either Reservation, and by 1880 enough ranchers and farmers had settled there that the Territorial Legislature created Uintah County ( most of which had previously been part of Wasatch County, with the county seat at Ashley ( now an abandoned area some three miles ( 5 km ) of present-day Vernal ).

In 1880, the Salvation Army started its work in three other countries: Australia, Ireland, and the United States.

Beadle County, named in honor of Brigadier General William Henry Harrison Beadle, was created by the Dakota Territory Legislature in 1879 and formally organized in 1880 with the appointment of three county commissioners by Governor Nehemiah G. Ordway.

Vineland was originally incorporated as a borough by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on May 28, 1880, from portions of Landis Township, based on the results of a referendum held three days earlier.

As well, three downtown retail buildings can be dated to approximately 1880: 101 Pittsburgh Street, 143 Pittsburgh Street, and 4-10 South Broadway Street.

In 1880, the population was about three hundred.

Farwell, in the center of Hansford County about three miles east of what later became Gruver, was established in 1880 by the Canott family of Illinois and was the first town in the county.

Smallpox and yellow fever epidemics in 1866 and 1867 slowed recovery, and the population dropped to 497 by 1880, when the town reported four churches, three schools, and a hotel.

In 1880, the Pleasant Grove post office was moved close to where the small commercial center was beginning to form with the establishment of a sawmill and, three years later, a gristmill.

Max Bruch was appointed on 23 February 1880 and served for less than three years.

He was convicted of three counts of capital murder and hanged at Old Melbourne Gaol in November 1880.

In 1880 Acton classed Macaulay ( with Burke and Gladstone ) as one " of the three greatest Liberals ".

In 1880, Mr Justice Barry presided at the final trial of Ned Kelly, who was tried and convicted of murdering three other Victoria Police Constables.

Based on observations between 1800 and 1880, Epsilon Eridani was found to have a large proper motion across the celestial sphere, which was estimated at an angular velocity of three arcseconds annually.

In this context, flagship means the original institutions from which the system grew, often schools dating from the wave of state university foundings that occurred in the three decades from 1850 to 1880.

Owens College was the only member of the Victoria University from 1880 to 1884 ; from 1887 when Yorkshire College joined there were three member colleges.

His more serious novels include Madelon ( 1863 ), L ' Infâme ( 1867 ), the three that form the trilogy of the Vieille Roche ( 1866 ), and Le roman d ' un brave homme ( 1880 ) – a kind of counterblast to the view of the French workman presented in Émile Zola's L ' Assommoir.

By 1880, there were about three dozen monthly spiritualist periodicals published around the world.